What is covered, week by week, and which topics each lecture draws on.
Every lecture the course claims to run gets a dated page and a teaching-team
reference. A course decides how many lectures it needs; one of them carries a
real deck. related: connects lectures to the sessions and assessments they
feed.
The office that ate itself
What changes when something is copied, the eight-operation control that shows change is not guaranteed, and why a deterministic rule still leaves readers disagreeing.
Week 1 · 22 February 2027
Hiss as a signature
Four explanations for a shared feature, only one of which is ancestry, and what makes the difference between them.
Week 2 · 1 March 2027
What the ear cannot hear
Why a suggested cause needs a control, a stated outcome measure and everything else held fixed — and what a non-detection does and does not license.
Week 3 · 8 March 2027
The poor image
Working backwards from a limited observation, why indistinguishable is a claim about evidence rather than about files, and why ruling out one history does not establish another.
Week 4 · 15 March 2027
The scriptorium
How hand copying fails, and why a shared mistake carries more information than a frequent one.
Week 5 · 22 March 2027
Reading the damage backwards
Building a tree from shared error, the assumptions it needs, and where contamination breaks it.
Week 6 · 29 March 2027
When ancestry becomes hard to read
A simplified replication model, its parameters, and the biology it leaves out.
Week 7 · 12 April 2027
Copying without loss
Redundancy as a purchase: what it buys, what it costs, and where the guarantee stops.
Week 8 · 19 April 2027
The curse of recursion
Resampling from your own output, and why the rare cases go first.
Week 9 · 26 April 2027
Enhance
What a restoration can recover, what it supplies from a prior, and how to tell.
Week 10 · 3 May 2027
Chain of custody
Carrying provenance with an object, and what a missing record does and does not prove.
Week 11 · 10 May 2027
The original that never was
Choosing what survives, and pricing what you agree to lose.
Week 12 · 17 May 2027